The level of just profound personal animus that Romney holds for other leading lights

in the Republican party, this is just a few highlights, Ron DeSantis, there's just

no warmth at all.

And that's one of the nicer quotes.

Newt Gingrich, a smug know-it-all, smarmy, and two pleas with himself, Santorum, Sanctimonious,

severe, strange, hrygapary, Republicans must realize that we have to have someone who

can complete a sentence.

Ted Cruz, frightening, scary, a demagogue, Huckabee, a huckster, a caricature of a for-profit

preacher, Bobby Jindal, a twit, John Kasich, lack of thoughtfulness, lack of attentiveness,

ego, no wonder he and Chris Christie spark.

With friends like that, I am eager to know whether this distrust, this distaste for

the leaders in his party, was it always in him or did Trump really catalyze a sense

of anger and frustration?

Well, I think that what's important to know about this quotes is some of them are things

that he told me over the course of those two years.

Some of them are from his journals dating back a decade, right?

And so what that shows is that for a long time, he has had a sense that the Republican

base gravitates toward figures who he finds unimpressive, to say the least, sometimes frightening,

right?

But especially in the last few years, he's seen the party become more and more populous,

more and more extreme.

And those quotes have started to get a lot of attention in the last few days and people

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